by Dennis Betito Jr.
2013-14724
There is a flow in our everyday lives. We know that everyday for as long as our generation lives, the sun will rise from the east and set in the west. But what if it wasn't like that?
This is the world that Isaac Asimov imagines. He creates Lagash, a planet surrounded by six nearby stars. As a result, the whole planet is perpetually bathed by sunlight, and the citizens of Lagash have never seen the stars, until now.
The radioplay opens with scientists pondering the possibilities that could arise from darkness engulfing about half of the planet by the aligning of the stars and the planets. They are afraid of the darkness: the unknown.
The plot is very interesting, and I would like to see it portrayed on stage or in film. The fear of the unknown is instinctive in humans, or at least to me. I'm very impressed with the imagination Asimov expresses. I'm a frustrated fiction writer, and the though process behind creating science fiction has always impressed me.
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